From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A rose by any other name ....
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:15:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100923161539.GA13498@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009231049440.26185@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:51:58AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> >
> >Am 16.09.2010 um 00:34 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Is it possible to change the name of the font as it appears in the pdf file?
> >>
> >>More specifically, I am using Termes font, but I want that the document properties to show the name of the font as Times. Is that possible? Is doing so a violation of the font license?
> >
> >Taco showed at the conference a way to modify the values of a font and i think you can use this.
>
> Are the reference slides or code available. I could not find any in
> the context meeting slides.
>
> >A easier solution is to use the real Times fonts instead of the
> >TeX Gyre version, Times New Roman is available as part of the
> >basic web fonts and AFAIR many linux distros provide a mechanism
> >to download them.
>
> Of course. I don't know why this did not occur to me.
>
> (but ... TNR is not "real Times" but no one cares for that)
Actually it is the real times, but Linotype registered the name Times
Roman in USA before Monotype (the designers of the font) and Monotype
had to use Times New Roman instead.
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 22:34 Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-16 11:05 ` Peter Rolf
2010-09-16 11:12 ` Patrick Gundlach
2010-09-16 13:36 ` Peter Rolf
2010-09-16 20:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-17 8:08 ` Peter Rolf
2010-09-18 11:33 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-09-18 12:07 ` luigi scarso
2010-09-18 12:16 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-09-20 11:30 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-09-23 10:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-23 14:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 16:15 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-09-23 16:22 ` William Adams
2010-09-23 16:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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